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Liberty and CANTV to build subsea cable linking Curaçao and Venezuela

Liberty and CANTV to build subsea cable linking Curaçao and Venezuela

Liberty Networks announced on Friday it is teaming with state-owned Compañía Anónima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV) to launch a new subsea cable linking Venezuela to the island nation of Curaçao.

The Fenix cable system will run 378 km between Curaçao’s capital city of Willemstad and Camuri, which sits 50 km from Caracas. The cable is designed for a minimum ring capacity of 14 Tbps, with flexible spectrum loading and support for 100G and 400G interfaces.

On the Venezuelan side, Fenix will interconnect with CANTV's festoon subsea cable along the Venezuelan coast, which the telco said will improve and diversify connectivity for Venezuela, and is expected to drastically reduce latency to less than 4 milliseconds between both landing points.

Fenix will also interconnect to Liberty’s subsea cable networks – including ARCOS, EC-Link, Jerry Newton and PCCS – that have a landing point in Curaçao. Liberty said the integration also includes IP Transit capabilities from Curaçao, which in turn connects to the NAP of the Americas data centre in Miami.

“This project is a fundamental step to strengthen international connectivity that comes at a critical time for Venezuela and allows us to offer greater capacity and access to a key region for the country's continued digital development," said Ray Collins, senior VP of infrastructure and corporate strategy at Liberty Latin America and CEO of Liberty Networks.

No timeline was given for the completion of the Fenix project. No financial details were provided.



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